Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

If you want to truly discover ways to improve your event, you need to collect new data straight from your team, attendees, and vendors while it’s fresh in their minds. Don’t forget to include your vendors in this exercise as well, especially if they are also present during the event. Net promoter score.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Organizations use event marketing to: Promote the brand to a larger audience. Create a comprehensive event timeline for all planning aspects: operations, marketing, designers, and vendors. Decide your marketing channels to promote your event: social media, email marketing, podcasts, blogs, ads, etc. Promote Your Event.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Use a framework like Net Promoter Score to see how satisfied attendees were with your programming, venue, food, and overall event. . Use unique URLs or promotion codes to accurately attribute the leads to your event. You’re probably promoting the heck out of your event with email marketing. Post-Event Surveys.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

He promised that all those talking boxes will be more engaging however and whenever they are accessed thanks to Cvent Studio’s focus on enhancing video quality, recording and promotion. Read More : Hybrid Events: What Cvent Says You Need to Know.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Marketing and promotion. A year filled with data breaches has also increased awareness of data privacy, though only seven percent of respondents took attendees’ said privacy was a major consideration in choosing vendors. And more spending money means more events: forty-nine percent of respondents plan to host more events in 2019.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Diverse vendors—chefs, decorators, audio-visual technicians and a wealth of other industry talents—bring unique culture to event destinations. How can the industry do more to promote diversity?

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

Heres what this phase entails: Defining Clear Objectives: Clearly articulate the goals of your conference, whether it’s to promote brand awareness, generate leads, or foster knowledge sharing. Marketing and Promotion: Reaching Your Target Audience Effective marketing is crucial to attract a large and engaged audience.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For example, professionals in our industry can take action by advocating for educators, vendors, venues, CVB and DMC rosters, and the like, to specifically include minority-owned businesses. By promoting the growth of all aspects of the supplier line, deep and transformational change is fostered—change that goes beyond mere window dressing.

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Dana Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Also, if you’re taking steps to be socially sound and helping the community by collaborating with local vendors, let that be known too. Bamboo, glass and stainless steel are making big strides these days, doing their part to leave a smaller footprint and promote a healthier planet now and for generations to come.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2023

The industry, further, has a duty to promote diversity in the earliest planning of events to reflect the essence of stakeholder touch points. Diverse vendors such as chefs, decorators, audio-visual technicians, professional photographers and a wealth of other industry talents bring rare culture to event destinations.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

Expanding vendor deals to utilize spa facilities, wellness-based accommodation and better team training are good places to start. “On Financial compensation and job promotions alone aren’t enough to keep employees emotionally and psychologically satisfied with their work environment. Moreover, travel can instigate personal development.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The issue is that some costs, like labor or third-party vendors, are tricky to calculate. Net Promoter Score (NPS). Use Net Promoter Scores to see how likely attendees are to recommend your brand or event to other people. Remember to factor in all of your expenses, so you have a better idea of your actual event ROI.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In every contract, an Audio Visual (AV) quote is the piece of a vendor agreement that has the dollars attached to it that breaks apart the projected cost of different materials. It’s no surprise that many large events require various large promoters. We’ve been talking a whole lot about Av quotes. Discount Opportunities.

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ADMEI

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You want a company that knows its city well and has built excellent relationships with venues and vendors in the area. How do you approach vendor relationships? One of the advantages of working with a DMC is gaining secondhand access to their vendor network. Can you tell me about your largest group or event?

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 25, 2019

You’re dealing with vendors, speakers, performers, caterers, marketers, the media, you name it. Event planners can “hack” Asana by listing speakers, performers, vendors, etc as “tasks” and attaching their contracts, promo photos, and so on to the task. As an event planner, you’re juggling a dozen or more balls. Good news: There is.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 12, 2024

Whether guests, employees, vendor partners, or friends; I do my best to show genuine hospitality. Working through a myriad of intricate details, collaborating with multiple departments and vendors, and then witnessing the culmination of months of tireless planning I felt an overwhelming sense of fulfillment.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This year may see fewer people wandering the venue halls Las Vegas Convention Center , but promoters are confident that the show will go on, with some pandemic tweaks. Vendors will host virtual experiences to familiarize participants with their products, and some companies still plan to be on site.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Social media has long been an important part of event marketing and promotion. Facebook can be used to promote all kinds of events — from conferences and conventions to birthday parties and retirement celebrations. In this blog post, we’re going to walk you through how to promote an event on Facebook from start to finish.

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Endless Events

APRIL 9, 2021

These basics include: Marketing & PR: Through which avenues are you promoting your event? Includes everything from Google ads to vendor and sponsor associated costs. Check out the full document to know how much you can expect to spend on each!

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Endless Events

MAY 28, 2021

Start with smaller-scale experiences that promote social distancing so you can easily control the flow of people coming in and out. Vendors and partners are on your side. As we mentioned above, an event that used to take place at an enormous convention center with thousands of attendees will probably look a bit different in 2021.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What are creative ways to promote an event that everyone else isn’t already doing? Dive in as we unravel the essence of event promotion and unveil game-changing strategies that will capture attention and ignite excitement and anticipation for your event. What is event promotion? It’s all about creative promotion.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Run social media campaigns to promote meetings and compile hashtags for attendees to use. Be sure to partner with sophisticated virtual meeting technology vendors that feature AI-based tools. Instagram and Facebook, depending on the age of your audiences, are well-established favorites; take advantage!

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Dana Communications

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These are the tourism authorities that partner with and promote happenings in the region. Being named a preferred vendor for overnight accommodations can really boost your bottom line. For smaller festivals, the DMO or CVB is typically also the resource event organizers point attendees to for arranging their own accommodations.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While our focus on this guide is how to use social media to promote our events, we’ll also need to consider the other available channels and best practices. What is the goal of promoting or marketing your event? If this is your first event and/or you are a brand new event organizer, you can purchase email lists from various vendors.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2022

The best way to get an estimate is to start calling vendors and building your event RFP. You can promote your hybrid event within your community for free. After all, hybrid events have numerous manifestations; from studio events to hub-spoke and synchronous to asynchronous hybrid events. Main Hybrid Event Budget Items.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2024

Welsh stated, in the release, “Choosing Tampa was a purposeful act to promote engagement and understanding…we recognize the concerns raised by our members and see this as an opportunity to highlight the importance of showing up, immersing and positively impacting the communities we visit.”

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ADMEI

JANUARY 17, 2024

Destination Organizations, or DOs, are not-for-profit organizations that represent a specific location, promoting the community as an attractive travel destination and enhancing its public image as a dynamic place to live and work. Resources Looking for the perfect vendor for an upcoming event? Need advice for a transportation hiccup?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Charleston Area Convention Center Campus is an ideal spot for promoters looking for flexibility in hosting a TedTalk-esque event. Guests will enjoy panoramic views from meeting areas that can be flexibly converted to the vendor’s needs during setup. Its 76,960 sq. New Zealand International Convention Centre contains 350,000 sq.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Compare quotes from different vendors to get the best price.’ And then I hit number four, ‘Use in-house audio-visual equipment instead of hiring outside vendors.’ Promote upcoming episodes or events. “We do this every single week. It says, ‘Think about renting audio-visual equipment instead of buying it.’ That makes sense.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

He will manage the hotel’s Pyramid restaurant and bar, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and serving up dishes with local ingredients sourced from Texas growers and regional vendors. In this role, Phillips looks forward to offering locally inspired menus to show off Dallas’ great palette. Bosman P.J. Bosman as culinary director.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 13, 2023

How To Promote a Virtual Event: 12 Creative Virtual Event Marketing Strategies Want to rock your next virtual webcast or other event ? Keep these virtual event marketing basics in mind as you develop your promotional strategy. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to co-host the event with a partner, customer, or vendor.

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Social Tables

AUGUST 13, 2021

Promote events on social media. Promote diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. Promote student health with a Student Farmer’s Market. To help combat all of this, partner with local vendors, artisans, and farmers to set up a Farmer’s Market for students. Host recurring events that connect students with alumni.

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Social Tables

APRIL 22, 2019

Here are some other ways this master planning guide can help: You can get on the same page with vendors and caterers well in advance. Add vendor timelines. When gathering vendor timelines, here are a few things you can ask: How long it takes for the caterer to prepare and serve a seated dinner for 500 people.

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Endless Events

MARCH 28, 2018

Typically when you’re choosing a venue, associates would require you to use their vendors (check out our guide to remove AV restrictions here ). Sometimes with an outdoor venue, you have flexibility and freedom to use any vendor you may like. Remember to use what you have and build on it. What To Take Away.

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Social Tables

APRIL 20, 2023

Choosing not to offer discounts or promotions While offering one ticket price for all event tickets may sound like the simplest option for event planners, choosing to do so could end up costing you profits. Do not let a popular keynote speaker or social media contest prevent you from promoting the core values of the event or brand.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2024

Negotiate with vendors and hotels for terms such as reduced management fees and service hours, things attendees can’t see and you might be able to handle internally. Sustainability and CSR Provide and promote water stations as an alternative to water bottles. DMC experts shared tips for containing costs without skimping on the program.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

“It’s gonna create an ‘easy button’ that you can click, and boom, it will analyze years of unwieldy data, build an event based on those insights with suggested locations, amount of space, speakers, content, length of time for sessions and all the marketing materials you need to promote it. All of these things that take time goes away.”

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